29:8 shaketh. The word for “shaketh” is the same as “travaileth.” The terrible wilderness, reminding David only of the forbidding wilderness of Kadesh, left around the world by the retreating flood waters (the waters themselves rush off into new ocean basins—see notes on Psalm 104:6-9), begins to shake like a woman in travail, as the earth prepares to bring forth new plant life to its surface.